Room on the Broom

By:
Julia Donaldson,
Axel Scheffler

Narrated by:
Josie Lawrence

Length: 24 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
267

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
204

Story

5 out of 5 stars
202

The witch and her cat fly happily over forests, rivers and mountains on their broomstick until a stormy wind blows away the witch's hat, bow and wand. Luckily, they are retrieved by a dog, a bird and a frog, who are all keen for a ride on the broom. It's a case of the more, the merrier, but the broomstick isn't used to such a heavy load and it's not long before...snap! It breaks in two! And with a greedy dragon looking for a snack, the witch's animal pals better think fast.

A full-cast BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman’s celebrated apocalyptic comic novel, with bonus length episodes and outtakes. According to the Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch, the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday in fact. Just after Any Answers on Radio 4….Events have been set in motion to bring about the End of Days. The armies of Good and Evil are gathering and making their way towards the sleepy English village of Lower Tadfield.

Football has come to the ancient city of Ankh-Morpork - not the old fashioned, grubby pushing and shoving but the new, fast football with pointy hats for goalposts and balls that go gloing when you drop them. And now, the wizards of Unseen University must win a football match, without using magic, so they're in the mood for trying everything else. The prospect of the Big Match draws in a street urchin with a wonderful talent for kicking a tin can, a maker of jolly good pies, a dim but beautiful young woman who might just turn out to be the greatest fashion model there has ever been, and the mysterious Mr Nutt.

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The Illustrated Mum

By:
Jacqueline Wilson

Narrated by:
Josie Lawrence

Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
62

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
45

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
45

Dolphin adores her mother, Marigold. She's got wonderful clothes, bright hair and vivid tattoos all over her body – a colourful lady, to match her colourful life. But Dolphin's older sister, Star, is beginning to wonder if living with Marigold's fiery, unpredictable moods is the best thing for the girls.

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Secrets

By:
Jacqueline Wilson

Narrated by:
Josie Lawrence

Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
36

Performance

4 out of 5 stars
25

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
25

India lives in a large, luxurious house with a mum she can't stand and a dad she adores, though he hasn't had much time for her recently. She seeks solace in her journal, which she keeps in sincere imitation of her heroine, Anne Frank. Treasure lives on the local council estate with her loving and capable grandmother. She is devoted to her nan but lives in fear of having to go back to live with her mother and violent stepfather. A chance meeting sparks a great friendship between the girls.

Based entirely on audience suggestions, this hysterically funny historical drama tells the thrilling extended story of an aristocratic family at war with itself. From Ancient Rome to 1920s Hollywood, we follow the Mastersons’ turbulent history across the centuries, as their fortunes wax and wane, and their fates hang on objects as diverse and unlikely as a tumble dryer, a rabbit’s foot and a pair of Siamese twins.

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Bad Girls

By:
Jacqueline Wilson

Narrated by:
Josie Lawrence

Length: 3 hrs and 14 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
30

Performance

4 out of 5 stars
19

Story

4 out of 5 stars
20

Shy, mild Mandy has been bullied at school for as long as she can remember. That's why she is delighted when cheeky, daring, full-of-fun Tanya picks her as a friend.Mum isn't happy – she thinks Tanya's a BAD GIRL and a bad influence on her daughter. But Mandy loves spending time with her brilliant new friend, and is sure Tanya can only get her out of trouble, not into it ... or could she?

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The Bed and Breakfast Star

By:
Jacqueline Wilson

Narrated by:
Josie Lawrence

Length: 3 hrs and 26 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
32

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
23

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
24

"Where do baby apes sleep? In apricots! I'm Elsa, and that's one of my jokes (I tell LOTS of jokes and I'm going to be a big star one day). I do my best to cheer my family up - but no one seems to laugh much any more. Not since we lost our lovely house and had to move into a bed and breakfast hotel."

The genius in the mad shirts from
Mock the Week stars in his own series costarring Tom Goodman-Hill, Josie Lawrence, Ben Willbond and Dan Tetsell. Mention Milton Jones to most people and the first thing they think is, 'Help!' In this show he has decided to set himself up as a man who can help anyone anywhere - whether they need it or not. Because, in his own words, there's 'no problem too problemy'. So when you're close to the edge, then Milton can give you a push....

The man they call 'Britain’s Funniest Milton' stars in his new show
Thanks a Lot, Milton Jones! co-starring Tom Goodman-Hill (
Mr Selfridge), Josie Lawrence (
Who’s Line Is It Anyway?), Ben Willbond (
Horrible Histories,
Yonderland) and Dan Tetsell (
Mongrels). Mention Milton Jones to most people and the first thing they think is ‘Help!’. And in this show he has decided to set himself up as a man who can help anyone anywhere - whether they need it or not.

A sparkling collection of comic monologues written by Jenny Éclair, about women facing pivotal moments in their lives. These tales introduce women seeking revenge, security, and adventure: a grandmother visits an upmarket supermarket to buy her grandchildren a meal they won't forget; a lonely woman takes a peek into other people's properties and lives when their houses are put up for sale; and a cleaner who discovers some secrets behind the Farrow and Ball doors of the middle class homes she visits.

In series 1 and 2, as his mum and wife, Mary, sit round his bedside and wonder how to wake him up, Ben’s mind is busy elsewhere. In his imagination, he lives with his two-year-old daughter, Blitz (now miraculously grown up), encounters celebrities such as Sue Lawley, Elvis Presley and Tom Paulin, relives memories from his past and gets into a compromising situation with a fellow inmate at a strangely familiar Torquay hotel. Meanwhile, an imaginary sitcom written by him, about coma patients in a hospital, plays in the background.

The man they call 'Britain’s Funniest Milton' and the genius in the mad shirts in Mock the Week stars in the third series of Thanks a Lot, Milton Jones! costarring Tom Goodman-Hill (Mr Selfridge, Humans), Josie Lawrence (Whose Line Is It Anyway?), Ben Willbond (Horrible Histories, Yonderland) and Dan Tetsell (Mongrels). Mention Milton Jones to most people and the first thing they think is ‘help!’. And in this show he has decided to set himself up as a man who can help anyone anywhere - whether they need it or not. Because, in his own words, 'No problem too problemy'. So when you’re close to the edge, then Milton can give you a push....

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Married: A BBC Radio Sci-Fi Comedy: Series 1-3

By:
Tony Bagley

Narrated by:
Arthur Smith,
Full Cast,
Hugh Bonneville,
and others

Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins

Original Recording

Overall

0 out of 5 stars
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0 out of 5 stars
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0 out of 5 stars
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Cantankerous bachelor Robin Lightfoot is happily single - until one morning he awakes to discover he’s married with two children. And he has two half-brothers...both called Ian. Is it a nightmare, a practical joke or something more sinister? Robin gradually realises that he’s in an alternate universe, where the Lib Dems are in power, the Dimbleby brothers are sports commentators and alcohol is a class-A drug.

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Something to Hide

By:
Deborah Moggach

Narrated by:
Josie Lawrence

Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
23

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
22

Story

4 out of 5 stars
22

Nobody in the world knows our secret...that I’ve ruined Bev's life, and she's ruined mine. Petra’s romantic life has always been a car crash, and even in her sixties she’s still capable of getting it disastrously wrong. But then she falls in love with Jeremy, an old chum visiting from abroad. The fatal catch? Jeremy is her best friend’s husband. But just as Petra is beginning to relax into her happy ever after, she finds herself catapulted to West Africa and to Bev, her best friend whom she’s been betraying so spectacularly.

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Seesaw

By:
Deborah Moggach

Narrated by:
Josie Lawrence

Length: 3 hrs and 1 min

Abridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
11

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
6

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
6

Take an ordinary, well-off family like the Prices. Watch what happens when, one Sunday, 17-year-old Hannah disappears without a trace. See how the family rallies when a ransom note demands half a million pounds for Hannah's safe return. But it's when Hannah comes home that the story really begins. Now observe what happens to a family when they lose their house, their status, all their wealth. Note how they disintegrate under the pressures of guilt and poverty and are forced to confront their true selves.

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Paddy's Pot of Gold

By:
Dick King-Smith

Narrated by:
Josie Lawrence

Length: 1 hr and 40 mins

Unabridged

Overall

5 out of 5 stars
3

Performance

5 out of 5 stars
1

Story

5 out of 5 stars
1

When Brigid sees a tiny carrot moving about in the garden she can't believe her eyes. When the carrot turns out to be a tiny leprechaun, she can't believe her luck. She is the only human who can see him - but where is his pot of gold?

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Sun at Midnight

By:
Rosie Thomas

Narrated by:
Josie Lawrence

Length: 3 hrs and 59 mins

Abridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
1

Performance

5 out of 5 stars
1

Story

4 out of 5 stars
1

An epic love story and adventure set against the harsh, beautiful background of Antarctica. Alice is a scientist: she relies on method, precision, proof. But when her relationship with Oxford artist Peter Brown collapses spectacularly, she is forced to evaluate her own life for the first time. In her 30s, childless, tied to Oxford by her work, it is time to break away. Alice's mother, Margaret Mather, is famous as an adventuring anthropologist, one of the first women in Antarctica many years before.

The History Plays is a series of five two-hander plays by Vent author Nigel Smith, which are imagined conversations at key moments in recent history, moments that have permanently changed the British psyche. Starting with Mick Jagger's conviction for drug possession and the surprising pro-Jagger line taken in a Times editorial through the fragmented morality of John Stonehouse, the Indian summer of patriotism over the Falklands, the death of Diana, and the end of the Blair years, The History Plays are a satirical and thoughtful exploration of huge social forces played out in small human dramas.